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Thursday, January 9, 2014

From sadness to happiness

When you
are consumed by sorrow and suffering, choose to do something that makes you
happy!

Sorrow is a very
natural, real human feeling. Someone dies. You lose something. You are
misunderstood. You break-up in a relationship. You suffer a crippling health
setback. Each of these situations can apply to any of us – at any time. And
when something like that happens, chances are that you will be grief-stricken.
You will wish your Life was different. This wishing will make you feel
miserable and cause all your suffering. You will go down a depressive spiral
and will continue to remain stuck in that cesspool of grief for a long, long
time. Over time, you will not even know what you are sad about. Sadness would
have become embedded in your subconscious.

The way to haul
yourself up in a situation like this is to focus on whatever gives you joy.
Could be music, art, watching a movie or being alone with nature. Whatever
makes you forget that you are sad, in a natural manner, do it. Drinking or
smoking do not fall in this category because they are artificial and you impose
them on you. Look for an immersive experience – where you can lose yourself,
without count of time or without thinking about your grief!

Sadness and happiness are the same energy – expressed differently. Look around you. There are so many happy people. Why are you not happy in their midst? The reason is
that when you look at them, you feel you can never be like them. You have
conditioned yourself to thinking that way. Because the truth is, if you can be
sad, you can be happy too! Not by replacing the factors that have caused your
sadness. But by accepting the fact that you have reasons to be sad, and that,
despite those reasons, you can chose to be happy doing what gives you joy!

Sorrow and suffering must not
be resisted. Or controlled. Or repressed. They must be transcended. You can go
past that – in fact, any – feeling if you are aware. Awareness will always lead
you to happiness!